Writing to the World-Wide Web

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March 20

Elegant Coding

Code and Copy Editors talking to each other ...
Call up John Horberg's "Talk to My Agent: Software Agents in Virtual Reality" and View Source!

Consider the differnce between "vertical coding" and "horizontal coding" and even a mishmash of the two! These all look identical, right? View source and consider.

Vertical: This is a cool class.

Horizontal: This is a cool class.

Mishmash: This is a cool class.

Is there a defineable difference between any of these?

Sample one.

Sample two.

Sample three

 
Some thoughts on meta-text ...


What is so important about "metatext?"  I thought that we should
be doing something similar before knowing that we had to do it, but I was
thinking more along the lines of something informal that sat on myt own
computer (partners can vouch for this).  So, what is the big deal?  Are we
actually going to get as much out of it?  In my current state of mind
(heheh) I'm leaning on the side of no.  


SO WHAT!?  I mean, who cares?  Do we really need to spend so much time on
something that is optional?  Tho "who, what, when where" question can be
ansered by just saying that we are in a class that deals with the design of
Web pages.  I don't know.  Maybe we should talk about the process from
beginning to end about how somebody sits down and creates a page.  Is their
a professional web weaver that could guest lecture maybe?  This
pseudo-intellectual metatext discussion seems sucks too much time from the
actual process of creating the pages.  I'd rather be doing the project
instead of writing about it.  I write about the process after it is complete.